Siva Prasadarao Grandhe is applying for the position of Head/Lead Corrosion & Materials/Integrity Engineer with over 28 years of experience in materials selection, corrosion management, integrity management, and process safety in the upstream oil and gas industry. He holds an MTech in Industrial Metallurgy and BTech in Mechanical Engineering and is Level II NDT certified. Currently he works as a Senior Specialist Engineer (Corrosion) at ADCO in Abu Dhabi with experience at PDO, Tebodin, Oman LNG, QP in Qatar, and ONGC in India.

1. Position applied for: Head / Lead Corrosion & Materials / Integrity
Name Siva Prasadarao Grandhe
Total Experience 28 Years
Nationality Indian
Date of Birth : 01-Mar-1964 (Age = 53 yrs)
Education as Qualified & Certified
 Master of Technology in Industrial Metallurgy (1992) from NIT (REC) Warangal, A.P. India
 Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (1988) from Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, A.P., India.
 ASNT NDT Level II – PT, MT, UT & RT (Interpretation) from ITT, Mumbai, India
 Certified Welding Inspector from ISNT, Bombay, India.
Membership in Technology Institutes
 Member of National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), USA (Since 1998)
Served NACE Oman chapter as Secretary from 2005 to 2007.
Summary of my Career
A post graduate Metallurgy Engineer with Mechanical Engineering background at graduation
level, having 28 years of experience in the area of Materials Selection, Corrosion
Management, Integrity Management, Process Safety Management during Design &
Operational phases of upstream Oil & Gas handling facilities (both Offshore & Onshore).
Key Qualifications
Have 28 years of work experience upstream Oil & Gas Industry (both Offshore & Onshore
area`s). Major experience during the past 28 years of work experience is indicated below.
• Selection, Review of Material of Construction (MoC) for Oil & Gas handling facilities.
• Selection and Performance evaluation of corrosion inhibitors for Oil & Gas application.
• Selection, inspection & monitoring of Coating, Insulation systems for Oil & Gas facilities.
• Assessment of Service Life Corrosion (SLC) and Life Cycle Cost (LCC) for Oil & Gas facilities.
• Integrity Management of Oil & Gas handling facilities (Pipelines & static equipment)
• Process Safety Assurance for Oil & Gas handling static facilities (Corrosion & Chemicals).
• Review of Intelligent Pigging (IP) reports and Engineering Assessment of Pipeline defects.
• Corrosion Control / Corrosion Management, Integrity assessment of Oil & Gas facilities.
• Risk Based Inspection (RBI) and Risk Based Assessment (RBA) – Shell Models
• Design, review of Cathodic Protection (CP) systems and Corrosion Monitoring (CM) facilities.
• Monitoring and Integrity Assessment of Cathodic Protection systems (ICCP & SACP).
• Engineering auditing of oil & gas Surface & Subsurface facilities.
• Periodic Equipment Integrity Review (PEIR) of Oil & Gas handling facilities.
• Preparation, review of material specifications for purchase of new equipment.
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2. • Fitness for purpose evaluation and failure investigations.
• Specific NDT techniques such as VT, PAMI, UT, RT (Interpretation), MPT, LPT, etc.
• Development of Corrosion & inspection procedures, work instructions and standards.
• Vendor qualification for technical services (Supply, Fabrication, Laboratory testing).
• Good knowledge of LNG, LPG, Oil & Gas Production Technology, Storage & Transportation.
• Training local staff in the area of Corrosion & Materials Engineering, Inspection & Integrity
Management.
• Have good experience of working with multinational teams.
Present Engagement
Since July 2010 ( ~ 7 yrs)
Senior Specialist Engineer (Corrosion), C&I,
AIMS, Technical Center (I/O), ADCO, Abu Dhabi
Serving M/S ADCO, ADNOC group, Abu Dhabi, as Senior Specialist Engineer (Corrosion & Materials)
with AIMS division in Technical Center (I/O) based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. ADCO is a major Oil & Gas
upstream organisation (ADNOC group of companies) in UAE and is involved in Oil & Gas exploration,
production & export in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Previous Assignments
Dec 2007 – Jul 10 ( ~ 2 ½ yrs) :
Served M/S Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO), as Sr. Materials & Integrity Engineer in Unit
Engineering Consultancy (UEC) division. PDO is a major Oil & Gas organisation in Sultanate of Oman
and is involved in Oil & Gas exploration, production & export in Oman.
Feb 2003 – Nov 2007 (4yrs, 10 months):
Served M/S Tebodin & Partners LLC (T&P), as Sr. Materials Corrosion & Integrity Engineer. T&P is an
engineering consultancy based in Muscat and are the main engineering consultants for M/S Petroleum
Development Oman (PDO). Seconded to PDO for 3 yrs (from 2005 to 2007).
Jan-99 to Feb-2003: (4 yrs)
Served M/S Oman LNG LLC (OLNG – Shell Joint Venture company), Sur, Oman, as Inspection Engineer
in Engineering Department. M/S Oman LNG LLC (OLNG) is a 2.2 b$ LNG manufacturing company
located at Sur, Oman. Associated with OLNG since its inception and contributed towards commissioning
of static equipment and setting up the inspection department. As part of setting up the inspection
department, developed Risk Based Inspection (RBI) system for all critical static equipment installed at
OLNG.
Oct-96 to Jan-99: (2 yr, 3 months)
Served Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC/QP), Doha, Qatar as Corrosion Analyst (Sr Tech)
in Corrosion & Materials division of Quality Assurance (QA) department. Qatar Petroleum (QP) is the
major Oil & Gas company in the state of Qatar and is involved in oil & gas exploration, production,
refining related activities.
Jan-91 to Oct-96 : (5 yrs, 6 months)
Served Liquefied Petroleum Gas / Crude Stabilisation (LPG/CSU) plant, M/S Oil & Natural Gas
Corporation (ONGC), Uran, New Bombay, India, as Executive Engineer in Inspection Division of
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3. Engineering department. Major activities are integrity monitoring of static equipment and condition
monitoring of rotary equipment installed in oil & gas plants at Uran Plant.
ONGC is a major Oil & Gas exploration and production organisation having wide network of Oil and
Gas installations all over India. ONGC, Uran plant, consists of 2 nos of crude stabilisation, crude
desalting, dehydration plants having 27MMTPA capacity and 2 nos of Ethane-Propane (C2-C3) plants
having 0.45 MTPA capacity and 2 nos of LPG plants having 0.7MTPA capacity.
During this period, I have designed and implemented cathodic protection system for 5 nos of crude oil
dehydrators / de-salters, installed at crude stabilisation unit of ONGC, Uran, in 1992 as part of my
Masters degree project work. In addition, involved in successful commissioning of Ethane & Propane
(C2C3) extraction plant in 1994.
May 89 - Dec 90 : (1Year, 07 months)
Served M/S Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Bombay, India from May-89 to Dec-90 as Assistant
Executive Engineer (Mechanical) and worked in Bombay offshore satellite field (BPA platform) as
mechanical maintenance engineer (static & rotary equipment).
Professional Expertise : Good knowledge and experience with the international codes and standards
such as NACE, API, ASTM, ASME, BSI, AWS, ISO etc. as well as Shell DEP`s &
local company standards and specifications.
Computer skills : Familiar with use of Corrosion Models (Shell Hydrocor, Predict, ECE and
Norsok Models), DNV Orbit Pipeline Integrity Assessment, Pipe RBA & RBI
(Shell Models), PACER, CREDO (computer aided Inspection management
tools).
Personal Details
a) Date of birth : 01-03-1964 (53 years )
b) Nationality : Indian. Sex : Male
c) Marital status : Married, and have 2 children (24M, 19F).
d) Contact Address : Siva Prasada Rao Grandhe,
Sr. Specialist Engineer (Corrosion),
Technical Centre (I/O), 9 West, ADCO Tower,
ADCO, PO Box: 270, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ph: +971-559945213 (Mobile), +971-2-6719405 (Residence)
Email: sivagrandhe@yahoo.co.in ; sivagrandhe@hotmail.com
e) Permanent address : C/O G. Pandurangaiah, H.No: 14-150
Near CPM office, Miryalaguda-508207, Nalgonda (Dist),
Telangana State, India. Ph: +91- 8689-242319
f) Language skills : Fluent in English, Hindi (Indian) and Telugu (Indian).
g) Passport no. : Z3071632, Date of issue: 20-05-2015, Valid up to : 19-05-2025
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